Used To Be Quotes - Page 35

• The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

  Paul Valery

  Time, Future, Trouble

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.

  Eddie Vedder

  Thinking, Years, Hopeful

  "Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam" by Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. November 06, 2002.

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• I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

  Johnny Vegas

  Birthday, Party, Kids

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• The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

  Jesse Ventura

  Decision, News, Facts

  "Jesse Ventura Slams The Media For Creating News Instead Of Reporting On It". Interview with Piers Morgan, crooksandliars.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

  Peter De Vries

  Past, Nostalgia, Used

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 26 July 1964

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• As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

  Mike Wallace

  Birthday, Eye, Long

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• I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Shy, Difficult Times, Used

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• I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

  Mae West

  Funny, Witty, Women

  In Joseph Weintraub Peel Me a Grape (1975) p. 47

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• There used to be a huge hole in my life that I wrote many albums about. I didn't realise it was a wife-and-daughter-shaped hole. They've plugged that gap. Everything I do, I do for them now. When daddy goes to work, it's daddy going to work, not Rob going to work. I feel like there's a purpose to everything.

  Robbie Williams

  Daughter, Daddy, Wife

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• I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.

  Norman Wisdom

  Home, Tired, School

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

  Dick Wolf

  Different, Agendas, Tables

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• In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of "overpermiticisation" - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.

  Naomi Wolf

  Government, America, Requirements

  "Naomi Wolf: how I was arrested at Occupy Wall Street" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2011.

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• American influence is not what it used to be.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Influence, Used

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• It used to be the case, like, you'd switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn't keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job. Just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Jobs, Old Job, People

  "A young Mark Zuckerberg's early mistake". "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. April 10, 2018.

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• Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

  Regina Brett

  Dna, Imagine, Used

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• It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.

  Howard Rheingold

  Teenager, Entering, World

  "Is That a Computer in Your Pants?". Interview with Jesse Walker, reason.com. April 1, 2003.

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• Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

  Hanna Rosin

  Factories, Used

  "Hanna Rosin: Why ‘The End of Men’ isn’t a ‘triumphantly feminist manifesto’". Interview with Suzy Khimm, www.washingtonpost.com. September 22, 2012.

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• It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

  Michael Chabon

  Differences, Denial, Used

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.197, Open Road Media

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• They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.

  Johnny Depp

  World, Used, Bigger

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• I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am

  John Newton

  Grace, World, Want

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• I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

  Joan Didion

  Night, Thinking, Doors

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 28, 2016

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• She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by what you think is right.' 'You don't do that anymore?' 'There are questions I don't ask anymore.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

  Epictetus

  Anger, Sacrifice, Emotion

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• It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it’ll put you to sleep.

  Malcolm X

  Strong, Coffee, Sleep

  Malcolm X's Speech at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference in Detroit, Michigan, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 10, 1963.

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• When I was young, I used to be so jealous of other girls that it crippled me.

  Anne Lamott

  Girl, Jealous, Used

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.86, Penguin

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